Sentence Examples

As a novel Valentine has little to commend it; the plot is feeble and the characters shadowy.

Why betray the incognito of this modest country-side without historical association or picturesque sites to commend it to the antiquary or the tourist?

This famous compact was the work of John of Nassau, at that time governor of Gelderland, and did not at first commend itself to his brother.

Accordingly Cromwell the same day refused the crown definitely, greatly to the astonishment both of his followers and his enemies, who considered his decision a fatal neglect of an opportunity of commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him."

His policy of living at peace with England and of arranging marriages between the members of the royal families of the two countries did not commend itself to the turbulent section of his nobles; his artistic tastes and lavish expenditure added to the discontent, and a rebellion broke out.